Rueben's Ramblings

The holiday movie Our Italian Christmas Memories will debut on November 12 at 10 PM on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

The Colucci siblings, in an effort to jog the memory of their grandfather who is struggling with dementia, set out to recreate their late grandmother’s legendary pasta sauce.

The movie stars Sarah Power and Beau Bridges.

Here is a trailer for Our Italian Christmas Memories:

The Hallmark Channel movie The Royal Nanny will debut on November 12 at 8 PM.

Claire (Rachel Skarsten) is an MI5 agent who goes undercover as the royal nanny. She must overcome the challenges of her assignment, like resisting the charms of Prince Colin (Dan Jeannotte), while keeping the family safe at Christmas.

The film also stars Greta Scacchi.

Here is a trailer for The Royal Nanny:

On November 12, the holiday movie Reindeer Games Homecoming will debut on Lifetime at 8 PM.

MacKenzie Graves (Sarah Drew) is a brilliant, competitive, crossword-puzzle-loving biology teacher in Vermont who recently lost her father, beloved fire chief and the heart of the town’s holiday fundraising tradition the Reindeer Games. Every year since his death, she competes with her dad’s former team, a group of colorful retired firefighters, to win the Games and keep his tradition alive.

This holiday however, her world is rocked when fading Hollywood star, and Mac’s high school crush, Chase Weston (Justin Bruening) comes home for Christmas to visit his pregnant sister and nephew and is begrudgingly roped into participating in the Games. When the opportunity to compete against her former megacrush arises, Mac is determined to show him up and win the Kris Kringle Cup at all costs. As the competition heats up, so does the spark between Mac and Chase, and Chase soon finds himself eager to not only win the games, but also to win her heart.

Here is a trailer for Reindeer Games Homecoming.

The Great American Family holiday movie A Merry Christmas Wish will debut on November 12 at 8 PM.

A New York City advertising executive (Jill Wagner) returns to her hometown to sell the family farm, but instead reconnects with her childhood friend (Cameron Mathison) and gets involved with organizing the yearly Winter Wonderland, which takes place on the property.

Here is a trailer for A Merry Christmas Wish:

On November 12, the UPtv holiday movie A Tiny Home Christmas will debut at 7 PM.

In order to save her family’s contracting business, Blair (Rebecca Dalton) reluctantly teams up with her ex-boyfriend (Christopher Seivright) and former co-star of a hit home design reality show to build a tiny home for the unsheltered in the community, rekindling old sparks in the process … and just in time for Christmas.

Here is a trailer for A Tiny Home Christmas:

On November 11, the Hallmark Channel movie In Merry Measure will debut at 8 PM.

When pop star Darcy returns home to spend Christmas with her sister and niece, she unexpectedly finds herself coaching the high school choir with her onetime rival, Adam.

The film stars Patti Murin, Brendan Penny and Jennifer Robertson.

Here is a trailer for In Merry Measure:

The holiday movie A Gingerbread Christmas will also debut online on Discovery+ on November 11.

After a devastating workplace development throws Hazel Stanley’s (Tiya Sircar) job prospects as a full-time architect into question, she leaves New York City to spend the holidays with her father, Ted (Sugith Varughese), in her suburban Chicago hometown. While there, she discovers that the family bakery is even worse off than she imagined, having been on the decline since the passing of her mother. And to add insult to injury, her former best friend Shelby (Kyana Teresa) has opened a trendy new bakeshop across the street.

When all seems to be lost, she gets the idea to enter a gingerbread house competition led by homegrown food celebrity Mark Clemmons (Duff Goldman) offering a $100,000 prize — enough to get the ailing bakery back on track. While working on her magnificent cookie edifice, a romance begins to bloom with a local contractor James Meadows (Marc Bendavid) who — along with his daughter — has been helping her father out by lending his baking prowess to the place while trying to fix it up in his spare time. A series of frustrations and misunderstandings threaten to tear them apart, but will the magic of the holiday lead everyone to have a merry Christmas?

Here is a trailer for A Gingerbread Christmas: